Happy Wednesday!  How are you?  Is anyone, besides me, shocked that we’re 10 days and counting into the month of March?!  Yikes, slow down, father time.  On that note, daylight savings time is here…so we’ll get an extra hour of daylight.  {I’m not sure I’m happy about this, it’s coming too soon and I’m not ready for the warm weather that usually follows. I know the east is overdue for some warmth.  Can I send you some of ours?}

Still, you can always make room for pretty porch lights on the front of your home, right?

Oh how I’d like to call this stone beauty home!

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I want to talk about (and share) some pretty porch lights.  It’s the little things that contribute most to a first impression, don’t you think?  Where a home’s entrance is concerned, porch lights {or garage door lights, as Mr. B. likes to call them when they flank the garage door} can not only capture your attention, they can steal the show.  Lighting adds so much to the front of a house.

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Our porch lights have been up a long time.  We had to have an electrician install the porch light on the right side of the garage.  California tract houses, you gotta love them.  They put a porch light on the left side of the house and one by the front door, but called it a day after that.  Symetry, people!

This isn’t the greatest picture but the light on the right is the one we had to add.  The one on the left, hidden in this picture by the ivy around it, matches the one we added as well as the one up by the front door.

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Oh, to live in a stone house with this front door surround!

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My personal leanings seem to be towards a pair of lanterns, but Kevin (our younger son) and Sarah have these beauties on the front of their house and I really like the way they look with their paint color and the architectural details of their home.

The details of the fixture and wonderful oil-rubbed finish, coupled with the glass makes these especially stunning. {Good job, Sarah!}

I notice there are a lot of pictures in this post with black doors.  I believe I’m partial to dark doors on light houses! 🙂

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Even this impressive entrance is enhanced with beautiful entry lighting…by all accounts Ralph Lauren always gets it right.  I agree!

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…and his Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles location

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I digress, Ralph Lauren stores aren’t what this post is about.  It’s about the inviting appeal of porch lights on residential abodes.

This wall lantern on a West Palm Beach home in Florida is attractive. I like the back plate and the unique design of the light itself. {I also love the stone dog!}

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The overhead lantern in addition to the small lanterns on either side of the front door and side lights is ideal for this large front porch.  So pretty with the transom windows, and {ahem} another dark door.

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A simple fixture on this shingled house suits it very well.  Don’t you love shingled houses? Charming.

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The French Country house below might be my favorite in this group.  Donald Lococo Architects did an amazing job with the exterior elements of the home.

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Do you have a preference when it comes to porch lights? You’ll use it 1 hour less now that we’re in Daylight Savings Time, unless you live in Arizona, Hawaii or Indiana!